Author Archive: Laura Szypulski

The first thing I do every single morning, much the same as every other engineer, is to go to my phone and read my daily Dilbert. As you can imagine, I was delighted to see this post from his creator, Scott Adams: My Verdict on Gender Bias in the Workplace.

10. Someone ALWAYS offers to help them carry something, even if they’re not carrying anything heavy I don’t know how many times I’ve been walking down the hall at work carrying something when someone offered to take it off my hands. I’ve had people willing to go completely out of their way to carry something …

I was browsing for a new e-book to read from my library when I happened across a book entitled The Confidence Code by Katty Kay and Claire Shipman. This book caught my eye because one thing I’ve noticed about women is they tend to have less confidence than men. I think it’s the last thing that …

The other day, I was sitting in a small meeting. In attendance were three male engineers and a male senior director, we’ll call him Bob. Bob was talking, mostly facing the three engineers, because he was at the whiteboard and it just naturally fell that I was pretty much behind him. Mid topic he stated, …

I haven’t posted in a little while mostly, because I have been working on a letter to the editor for the Albany Times Union (ATU) . It all started when I received an email via my RPI alumni distribution list about an editorial the acting vice president for strategic communications and external relations at RPI …

English has no good solution to a singular gender neutral pronoun when it comes to referring to people. Well it does, but society has deemed the proper grammar solution inappropriate for the modern world. It is considered by Oxford Dictionary grammatically correct to use words such as “he”, “him”, his” to refer to either a …

I fear posting this for it is a sensitive subject. I didn’t expect to get into the abortion discussion this early in my blogging, but since I’m sharing my blog on Facebook and Google+, I’m actually perusing the posts again. A good friend of mine works for Planned Parenthood and shares links on Facebook from …

The title of this entry is a quote from a good friend. It was in response to me telling him about this endeavor of mine. He was of course being funny and I laughed hysterically. But it got me thinking. What if he said something like that in front of people that didn’t know him …

My whole life I’ve witnessed inequality in the world around me, from mechanics prejudging my knowledge of cars, to my male friends and family members getting passed over for promotions because they don’t represent people with the right parts between their legs. I personally am not a believer in equality in all aspects of life. …